Die vorliegende Analyse und der daran anschließende Gestaltungsvorschlag sind Ergebnis eines zweieinhalbjährigen Forschungsprojektes mit dem Titel "Leistungspolitische Regulierung in der Bekleidungsindustrie. Modellvorschläge zur Neubewertung von Frauenarbeit bei flexibler Fertigung", das am...

The process of economic globalization has winners and losers. Iran’s carpet industry provides a good illustration of the adverse side of this process. As the production costs of its rivals have fallen, surging international trade has reduced the market share of Iran's labor-intensive products,...

We provide some of the first rigorous evidence on performance spillovers and social network in the workplace. The data we use are rather extraordinary - weekly data for rejection rates (proportion of defective output) for all weavers in a firm during a 12 months (April 2003-March 2004) period,...

The boundless market scenario, offers the strict and cut throat competition where only the fittest will survive. There is a wider scope for Indian textile products which is expected to perform better in the post quota era. There is an expectation that India will double its market share of...

I analyze the length of the workweek of foreign-born workers in the U.S. I concentrate on workers supplying long hours of work − 50 or more weekly hours and document that immigrants are less likely than natives to work long hours. Surprisingly, these differences are greatest among highly...

The RMG industry of Bangladesh is the main sector of foreign earnings. There are more than 4,000 garment companies in the country. More than 75 per cent of the foreign earnings come from this sector. More than four million workers are working.in this industry of which 90 per cent is women coming...

The study reveals that, Readymade Garment (RMG) sector has positively influenced the socio-economic condition of women garment workers. Employment opportunities for women in the garment industry have created the scope to cross the threshold of economic space. In Bangladesh, the readymade garment...